3toed: VSH

encourages exploration of your visual landscape.

insight: [ethno]graphic design + some joy, some pain + shoprva + visual scavenger hunt + a small light + the detroit project (fleshconcret) + goodgood +

The goal of the Visual Scavenger Hunt is to document the different (and often quite similar) visual landscapes people around the world encounter daily. Often we do not notice how much our communities are shaped by various forms of visual communication. Posters, signs, advertisements, paintings, graffiti, billboards, flyers, license plates, trash—all become integrated into the environment around us.

Click on the images to view enlargements of the project below.

Visual Scavenger Hunt, Exhibition Poster, Large format B&W,
84” x 36”, 2007

Share Your World, Website Image, 2006

Visual Scavenger Hunt, Online Photographic Database, 2006-Present

Between 2006-07 I contacted individuals around the world
with hope that they would document their visual landscapes.

Contributors were asked to photographically document specific artifacts of visual culture in their environment. The photographs were then compiled in an online database, allowing the participants to view one another’s contributions as well as download images and make comments on the website. My goal was to have individuals focus on how visual communication can make our communities similar, and also how it makes them unique.

The Visual Scavenger Hunt is an online photographic database. Click here to upload pictures of your visual landscape!

LINKS:
Visual Scavenger Hunt Website/Directions
VSH on Flickr
Join the Flickr Group!
VSH World Map

Visual Scavenger Hunt, Spread from [ethno]graphic design (Book), Digital Color Print, perfect binding, 154 pages, 8.5” x 8.5”, 2006-08

Contributors were given a list of 29 objects to photograph, ranging from non-interpretive (take a photo of the front of today’s paper) to subjective (take a photo of a provocative advertisement). The contrast between variable and control made for an exciting cross-cultural comparison.
By May 2007, I had received over 700 photographs from 25 individuals in 20 different countries, creating a polyphonous cross-cultural comparison of visual communication from across the globe. The project continues to present insight into how visual communication helps shape culture
and identity. The images speak for themselves...

LINKS:
Visual Scavenger Hunt Website/Directions
VSH on Flickr
Join the Flickr Group!
VSH World Map

[ethno]graphic design, website, 2006-08

[ethno]graphic design, Website, 2006-08

The Visual Scavenger Hunt is housed on a site created for my thesis, [ethno]graphic design. The website grew out of my thesis project of the same name (see below). It was created as a resource for all people who want to explore visual languages, such as graphic design, and how we use it to communicate with one another.

Click here to visit the website.